Entity Periods

Period assignments linking entities to the historical periods when they are attested. An entity may span multiple periods. All Greek entities are assigned; Egyptian tradition is fully covered; total coverage exceeds 70%.

Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb

confidence
{'description': 'high / medium / low — certainty of the period assignment'}
rationale
{'description': 'Justification with source citations'}

1 row where entity_id = "ENT_VF_WITCHTOK"

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Link entity_id period_id confidence rationale source_id review_status
ENT_VF_WITCHTOK,PER_DIGITAL_FOLKLORE WitchTok / Online Neopagan Devotion ENT_VF_WITCHTOK Digital-Age Folklore & Vernacular Religion (21st c.) PER_DIGITAL_FOLKLORE high A digital devotional movement node: Gen Z devotees on TikTok/Instagram genuinely venerate ancient deities — building altars, leaving offerings, doing 'deity work,' interpreting signs, and reporting being 'called' by a god. Documented by Burton (Strange Rites) and digital-religion scholarship (Campbell). Wired reception_of to the specific ancient deities documented as WitchTok-popular; this models contemporary reception, not duplication, of those still-attested entities. SRC_BURTON_STRANGE_RITES reviewed

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CREATE TABLE "entity_periods" (
   [entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [period_id] TEXT REFERENCES [periods]([period_id]),
   [confidence] TEXT,
   [rationale] TEXT,
   [source_id] TEXT,
   [review_status] TEXT,
   PRIMARY KEY ([entity_id], [period_id])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_period_id]
    ON [entity_periods] ([period_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_entity_id]
    ON [entity_periods] ([entity_id]);